Kristin grew up in Western Minnesota, graduated from St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, the Manhatten School of Music, N.Y.C., and Wartburg Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa. She is one of three pastors at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Austin, Minnesota, and serves as co-chair of Lutherans Concerned, Southern Minnesota. Kristin is passionate on issues of diversity, homosexuality, and encouraging partnerships between congregations here and congregations in Columbia, South America. She wrote an Old Testament Bible Study for Augsburg Fortress, published in 1998: God Calls a People to Faithful Living and has a collection of sermons, Formed By a Dream published by CSS Publishing.

(Bio from summer 2001)